Stock-car



(No Model.)

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JWILLIAM ARTHUR MORTON, OF LEAVENWORTH, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BRYSON BROTHERS, OF OVERBROOK, KANSAS.

STOCK-'CAR SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.` 537,702, dated April 16, 1895.

Application filed October 5, 1894:.

To if/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it k nown that I, WILLIAM ARTHUR Mon- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leavenworth, `in the county of Leavenworthu be coinpactly stored Within a car when not in use, and which will permit the confined ani mals to be readily removed when desired.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of a stock car provided with an adjustable partition constructed in accordance with this invention, the top of the car being removed and one side partly broken away t0 illustrate the partition more clearly. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same, the partition being shownin elevation. Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in both figures of the drawings.

1 designates an adjustable partition, composed ot' two vertical sections 2 and 3, connected at their adjacent vertical edges by hinges 4, whereby the section 2 is adapted to swing on the other section to 'serve as a door to enable animals partitioned off to be readily removed in unloading-a car 5, without entirely removing the partition. The adjustable partition is suspended from parallel longitudinally-disposed rods 6, by a pair of hangers 7, extending upward from the top of the section 3, and provided with openings to receive the rods 6, whereby the partition may be shifted longitudinally of the car to the desired point.

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Serial No. 525,029. (No model.)

The rods" 6, which are located at the top of the car, are designed to extend a little over one-half the length of the same, but they may be of any desired length, and they enable a 53 portion of the car to be divided off by the adjustable partition, in order to separate differ- `ent kinds of animals, and to avoid the necessity of building a temporary partition which is expensive, inconvenient and injurious to the frame of the stock car. i p In shipping animals, different kinds of stock are often placed in the same car, and there `may be fewer of one kind than of another,

and it is desirous to arrange a partition at the most advantageous point in the car to avoid an unnecessary waste of space.

The sections are rigidly connected together by a locking-bar 8, pivoted to one of the sections, near the center of the partition, adja- 7o cent to the inner vertical edge of one of the sections, and it is adapted to be arranged in a horizontal position and have its ends engaged by keepers 9 and 10, located at the outer One of the keepers is preferably disposed horizontally and the other is arranged vertically, as shown at 10, to form a stop to limit the downward swing of the adjacent portion of the locking-bar, which may be swung upward to release the section 2 to 8o permit the latter to swing open.

The sections 2 and 3 are rigidly mounted in the car by means of metal bars` 11 and 12, disposed longitudinally of the car and arranged on the inner faces of the sides thereof and S5 centrally of the bottom of the same, and provided With series of perforations 14, which are engaged by projections 15, at the outer edges of the sections, and the vertically-disposed sliding bolt 16, located at the bottom of 9o the partition. The perforations are arranged at intervals, and the combined width of the sections is designed to be slightly greater than the inner Width ot' the car, wherebyrin closing the sections of the partition, the latter is forced into position and is firmly locked by j the means before described. The projections 15 are partially engaged with the proper perforations 14 before the sections are closed, and the closing of the sections of the partition rco forces the projections completely into the perforations.

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It will be seen that the partition is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction, that it is capable of ready adjustment to divide a car as desired, and that, when not in use, it may be compactly arranged against one end of the car Where it will be entirely out of the Way.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any ot the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is-' l. The combination with a stock car provided With a longitudinally-disposed rod located at its top, of an adjustable partition slidingly suspended from and adapted to be moved longitudinally of said rod and cornposed of two hinged sections and provided at the outer edges of the sections With ip'rojections, means for locking the hinged sections in alignment, and bars disposed longitudinally Vof the car and providedat-intervals with perforationsto receive the said projections, substantially as described.

2. The combination with'a stock Ycar provided at one side of its top with Ilongitudinally-disposed rods, and bars disposed longitudinally ot' the car and arranged on the in` ner faces ot' the sides thereof and on the loot-i tom of the same andprovided at intervals With` perforations, of an adjustable partition com'- posed of hinged sections provided at their outer edges with projections interlocking with the perforations of the bars on the sides ot' the car, hangers extending upward from one of the sections and depending from and connected With said rods, means for locking the sections in alignment, anda bolt mounted on one of the sections and arranged to engage the perforations of the bar of the bottom of the car, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a stock car pro` vided at its top with longitudinally disposed rods, an adjustable partition located within the car and disposed transversely thereof and provided at its top With hangers suspended from said rods,'a bar disposed longitudinally of the bottomof the car and provided With -perforations, and abolt arranged at thebottorn of the partition and adapted to engage the perforations of said bar, whereby the partition'is secured inits adjustment, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. l

WILLIAM ARTHUR MoRToN.

Vitnesses:

I. N. BANE, J. W. FITZGERALD. 

